butlersrangers wrote on Oct 8^th, 2016 at 4:05am:

IMHO - It would be quite a task to force a loaded .303 round into a Krag chamber and close the bolt.

While that may be true for your chambers and cartridges, I assure you it is not so for mine. Some force is required, but nothing that can't be applied by a normal bare hand (vintage 1945). Here are a few examples -

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Note how little shoulder deformation is needed to match the fired .30-40 case. Don't be confused by comparison of shoulder position with a new .30-40 case - there's a significant difference.